Stained glass panel
Gallery Location
The Gallery of Modern Design
Maker
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) for the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, possibly made by the Niedicken-Wallbridge Company
Medium
Clear and coloured glass, lead latticing, wood
Geography
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Date
Designed in 1912
Dimensions
95 x 51 cm
Object number
2000.22.3
Credit Line
Gift of the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust; purchased by the Royal Ontario Museum with the assistance of a Moveable Cultural Property grant accorded by the Minister of Canadian Heritage under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. Acheté avec l'aide d'une subvention des Biens culturels mobiliers accordée par la Ministre du Patrimoine canadien en vertu de la Loi sur l'exportation et l'importation de biens culturels.
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Europe
Description
This window is one of a series from the Children’s Playhouse, part of one of Wright’s major commissions for the Coonley family of Chicago. Inspired by the two-dimensional abstract art of Frantisek Kupka and Robert Delaunay that he had seen in Europe in 1909, Wright has here, paradoxically, used the traditional craft of stained glass to create a work that reflects the emergence of abstract art. The shapes in the glass panel suggest those of balloons, confetti and streamers, elements appropriate to a children’s playhouse.
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